Order on contempt of court rule against Kushtia ex-SP today
The High Court will deliver its order today on the contempt of court rule issued against the then Superintendent of Kushtia Police SM Tanvir Arafat for misbehaving with a senior judicial magistrate during Bheramara municipality election on January 16.
Tanvir has been transferred as deputy commissioner of Barishal metropolitan police on February 8.
The bench of Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Khizir Hayat is scheduled to pass the order, Tanvir's lawyer Md Munsurul Hoque Chowdhury told The Daily Star yesterday.
On January 25, the HC bench had rebuked Tanvir for his misbehaviour with Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Mohsin Hasan, saying that he (Tanvir) must act in such a manner so that people don't feel that a police state has been established.
On that day, he appeared before the HC bench and apologised for his behaviour and promised that such "mistake" would not occur again.
During the polling on January 16, the magistrate went to the polling centre at Bheramara Pilot Model High School after receiving complaints of voting fraud and was talking to a presiding officer when SP Tanvir and other police personnel loudly called the presiding officer aside, according to media reports.
Mohsin told them he was a judicial magistrate and requested them to let him speak to the presiding officer. The SP then called the magistrate impolite and asked him to leave the premises.
Mohsin later filed complaint with the EC, Registrar General's Office of the SC, law and home ministries and IGP office, accusing the SP of misconduct. The SP's conduct during the polls was a blatant violation of the Local Government Election Rules, 2010, the complaint said.
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